Another simple exercise in motion tracking as I wanted to practice a bit more. I used one of Zhengzhou’s local dishes as a focal point and overlaid a few text titles. Not too difficult so I probably could have pushed this a little bit more.
I was running short on time today and so had to keep things simple. Originally, I was going to take a picture or video of a menu in Chinese and then have the translations pop up in English as the camera pans down. But then I met a colleague and we had dinner together. Not a loss since he knew what to ask for in terms of this Huimian dish.
Huimian is part of Henan cuisine, of which province Zhengzhou belongs. It was suggested to try it but I said I don’t usually like having the soup-version of noodle dishes since, not only do they splash everywhere, it was +35C and I don’t need hot soup to make me sweat any more.
Anyway, I ordered the dry version, or Gaimian, though I also heard it referred to as “gaifan huimian”. I’m not sure which is correct.
So this video (shot on my GoPro 9) is a simple tracking exercise in which the camera zooms in and out from the bowl and displays the name of the dish and then the words “Hao chi” or, “Delicious” (one of the many overused words in Chinese).
I made two clips using the same project. You’ll see that one set of text is blanked out, that’s because instead of creating a second instance of the video clip in Motion, I just added another set of text, motion tracked, blanked out the other text, and exported. All that is to say, I wanted to save some messing around with extending the timeline in Motion.
With the two exported clips, I imported them to FCX, added titles, re-did the soundtrack, and then exported as 4K.
The restaurant you see in the video is the place where we ate. The name of the restaurant says very plainly “Zhengzhou, old / traditional Huimian”. Hmmm, I wonder what they serve?
Overall, simple exercise but it’s something I wanted to try out. I can see that Motion Tracking should probably be used for the Censor effect in FCX as it would be easier than trying to match move with keyframes.